Tamil translation and speech-to-text models ta

1 model into Tamil, 1 from Tamil, 12 speech-to-text.

Which open models work for Tamil?

Windy Translate lists 1 open translation model into Tamil and 1 from Tamil. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 2 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). None of them has a screening score yet, so test them on your own text before you rely on them.

With English. English to Tamil: translate-windy-hplt-en-ta (not yet scored). Tamil to English: translate-windy-hplt-ta-en (not yet scored). To translate between Tamil and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

Speech-to-text. Whisper's tokenizer lists Tamil as one of its languages, so all 12 multilingual Whisper-based models here can transcribe it: see the speech models. Accuracy differs a lot between languages and model sizes, and this site has not measured speech accuracy.

Each model page has a short snippet to download and run the model yourself, its licence and attribution text, and its score where there is one. Pick the best scored model for your direction, then try it on a few sentences of your own text: a screening score is a starting point, not a guarantee.

Into Tamil

From Tamil

Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.